Prof. Marco Cangiotti

Prof. Marco Cangiotti is an Ordinary Professor of Political Philosophy and President of the Political Science Faculty at the University of Urbino (PG). He received his education at the philosophical school of Italo Mancini and at the University Urbinate. He is also a member of the Ethical Council for human experimentation.

For more than ten years he has been the editor-in-chief of the philosophical and theological annual “Hermeneutica” printed by the publishing house Morcelliana in Brescia. For three years he was also responsible for editing “Studi Urbinati di Scienza giuridiche, politiche ed economiche”, the journal of the Jurisprudence and Political Science Faculty of the University of Urbino. He is also a member of the scientific council for the “Annuario di etica” published by the Vita e Pensiero house of Milan.

He was a member of the permanent Council of the International Forum dedicated to the theme: “From the challenges of education to the challenge of education,” instituted by the Episcopal Commission for education, school, and university of the CEI (Italian Episcopal Conference). He also belongs to the “Council for the cultural role in the construction of the European Union,” an institute at the Department for the community politics of the Presidential Cabinet.

He graduated in Philosophy from the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’University di Urbino in 1979, defending a thesis in Philosophical Law. In the course of his scientific career, he was engaged, among other things, in the study and renewal of the tradition of thought falling under the name of “practical philosophy,” which analyzes the connections and the differences between the ethical and political sphere of human experience. He also dedicated himself to research pertaining to the relationship between religion and politics.

At the same time, he cultivated a constant interest for the prospective of philosophical anthropology in order to develop and verify the thesis (deduced by the work of Del Noce) that at the base of every political thought there is the possibility to discover some conception of man. Cangiotti has devoted himself to a cycle of studies relevant to the anthropological thought of Augustine, Thomas of Aquinas, Karol Wojtyła and, more generally, to the Christian tradition. He then turned his attention to the anthropological reflection of Immanuel Kant. Finally, he analysed some of the most important contemporary anthropologies that conflict with the traditional position.